After not being picked to make the year 6 football team in my final year of primary school – 1996 – I made an attempt to make the cross country team and failed at the first attempt. What happened next was learning a great life lesson which has helped me in many aspects of life … Continue reading Welcome to my blog→

2018 started just like the previous year with me lying in bed feeling rather ill. I guess alot of people get sick at this time of year. My guess is it at Christmas I spend time around family with lots of babies etc so I have a knack of catching something at this time. At … Continue reading 2018 (January – March)→

I became a member of a UK running club (Herne Hill Harriers) in September 2013 which represented exactly 10 years since I’d stopped being a club runner in 2003. After around a year and half after having joined Herne Hill Harriers I entered the 2015 Surrey County Cross Country Championships and competed in my first … Continue reading Return to home county championships→

So after a glorious summer at the beginning of October 2017 it was time to start thinking about goals for the winter racing season as well as longer term aspirations and forming a plan for how I’ll make those aspirations an actual reality. Having had a solid winter’s training last year and setting personal bests … Continue reading 2017 (October – December)→

So what are my post-track season thoughts for what’s taken place over the last couple of months. Basically it’s that I’ve finally come round to thinking that I can be as good as I want to be on the track. Whether I am that good (i.e. as good as I'd like) just depends on how … Continue reading Post-2017 track season reflections→

During July I was undertaking Soar 6 training. In the build up to the Soar mile at the end of the month I competed in a couple of races. Some highlights included an 800m pb at Watford in 2:05 which was 4 seconds quicker than my previous pb of 2015. Some interesting aspects of this … Continue reading 2017 (July – September)→

Ever since I got back into running as an adult I took the time to understand what the people I'd ran with during my teens had gone onto achieve. A lot of them had gone on to run some awesome times and finish high up in some really top races. I was, admittedly, very jealous … Continue reading A magical sub-16 minute 5k→